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This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole.
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
Discovery and exploration of the Solar System; Human presence in space; List of missions to the Moon; List of missions to Venus; List of missions to Mars; List of Solar System probes; List of interplanetary voyages; List of space telescopes; New Frontiers program; Out of the Cradle – 1984 book about scientific speculation on future missions ...
An artist's rendition of Kepler-62f, a potentially habitable exoplanet discovered using data transmitted by the Kepler space telescope. The list of exoplanets detected by the Kepler space telescope contains bodies with a wide variety of properties, with significant ranges in orbital distances, masses, radii, composition, habitability, and host star type.
Demonstrate low-thrust plasma propulsion in deep space. BioSentinel: Heliocentric Operational Contains yeast cards that will be rehydrated in space, designed to detect, measure, and compare the effects of deep space radiation. LunaH-Map: Moon Failure Search for evidence of lunar water ice inside permanently shadowed craters using its neutron ...
2016 was an incredible year for discoveries in space, but you’ve probably even forgotten some of the amazing things we now know. 2016 was an incredible year for discoveries in space, but you ...
1924: Edwin Hubble: the discovery that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies; 1925: Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger equation (Quantum mechanics) 1925: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Discovery of the composition of the Sun and that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe; 1927: Werner Heisenberg: Uncertainty principle (Quantum ...
The month of February brought some unbelievably exciting discoveries in the study of space, and with it even more out of this world images. Most notably, scientists detected a "chirp" from ...